Am Montag, 11. Juni 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Sunday 10 June 2018 22:48:53 William Morder wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 10:32:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote: > > > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote: > > > > > said William Morder: > > > > > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you > > > > > | have downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently? > > > > > | > > > > > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. > > > > > | However, I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that > > > > > | repo to my sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my > > > > > | sources.list on an external hard drive. > > > > > > > > > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a > > > > > computer show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install > > > > > routine that copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote > > > > > autoexec.bat with the name of the executable file. In those days > > > > > autoexec.bat could run to a couple of pages, with us all trying > > > > > to make our machines a little faster and getting use of memory > > > > > above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of the > > > > > TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we > > > > > copied command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So > > > > > autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned > > > > > machine into a single-game console was troublesome. > > > > > > > > I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place > > > > where dinosaurs still roam the earth. > > > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :) > > > > I wonder if they tasted like chicken or turkey, or more gamey like > > pheasant? > > > > Bill > > > I'd have to say that mere mortals like us will never know. Ostrich > maybe?, its pretty ancient. Oh, there has been some reserch on the devolepment of chicken taste in evolution. I haven't found the link on the original pater, but this almost as good :-) https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume4/v4i4/chicken.htm Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
